Abstract

In this paper three MMIC designs-a front-end, a VCO, and a high-pass filter-are presented. The circuits include some non-conventional solutions, such as integrated resonators and active filtering, in order to demonstrate the capability to integrate larger RF-systems for 2 GHz wireless telecommunication applications. The measurements of the three circuits showed a good performance, and the agreement with the simulations was excellent due to the process-tolerant design approach.

Abstract

In this paper three MMIC designs-a front-end, a VCO, and a high-pass filter-are presented. The circuits include some non-conventional solutions, such as integrated resonators and active filtering, in order to demonstrate the capability to integrate larger RF-systems for 2 GHz wireless telecommunication applications. The measurements of the three circuits showed a good performance, and the agreement with the simulations was excellent due to the process-tolerant design approach.